Now that 2019 is here, we’d like to take a look back at 2018 to review a few key trends and see what we can learn from them. It’s no secret that cyber threats are on the rise. Malware, ransomware, phishing scams, you name it—the threats are there.

But contrary to popular belief, threat actors don’t generally “break in” to these systems; they exploit known vulnerabilities in website security that give them access. Gartner predicts that through 2020, 99% of security vulnerabilities exploited will continue to be the ones known by security professionals for at least one year.